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From: tfra@ur-tut.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Installing DOS 3.3 on 20 MB hard disk
Message-ID: <1418@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Jun-87 09:00:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: ur-tut.1418
Posted: Wed Jun  3 09:00:41 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jun-87 20:43:39 EDT
References: <3676@gitpyr.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: tfra@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
Lines: 19
Keywords: DOS 3.3, INSTALL, SYSTEM FILES

[Et tu, line-eater?]

In <3676@gitpyr.gatech.EDU>, P. Allen Jensen writes:

> A friend of mine is upgrading to DOS 3.3.  He is worried that the
> SYS command cause problems when he tries to move the system files
> onto his hard disk.  Have the invisible system files changed in size ?
> Will he have to re-format hist hard disk to load DOS 3.3 or will the
> SYS command correctly update the system files ?

He shouldn't have to reformat his hard disk.  On the other hand, in the
latest issue of Infoworld, an executive at IBM is quoted as saying that
there is a problem using PC-DOS 3.3 on non-ibm hardware (specifically,
non-IBM hard disk hardware).  Anybody out there notice this problem?
-- 

  Tom Frauenhofer			...!seismo!rochester!ur-tut!tfra
"The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity."
				-- Harlan Ellison